Excel 2003 Automatically opens all my speadsheets

I have been using Office 2003 Pro for about 6 months now and just this week when I open Excel it automatically opens every spreadsheet on my hard drive and creates a button in the task bar that lists every Excel file. Can this "feature" be disabled?
I found the answer - Yes it can! In Excel, Options, on the General Tab: At startup open all files in: remove the file path. What was I thinking when I did that!!!